Chapter 542: The Femme Fatale in the Double Life Story (41)

The lake water in early spring is freezing cold.

Su Yu could swim, but the moment she was surrounded by the cold lake water, her hands and feet seemed to be no longer her own. They were frozen stiff and she fell uncontrollably. She struggled hard to rise and fall on the water.

At this moment, there are three big words in my mind - too much trouble.

Through the rippling water, she seemed to see someone jumping down as well.

"Your Highness——" The people on the shore were terrified and rushed down to rescue him, one after another like dumplings, which was inexplicably funny.

Su Yu saw the man swimming towards her.

Princess Minghui was next to her. Seeing Xie Qinglan, she cried out, "Brother, help me—"

Su Yu thought Xie Qinglan came down to save Princess Minghui, until she looked at Xie Qinglan with a confused look on her face as he walked past Princess Minghui who was closer to him and grabbed her arm.

A strong arm tightly wrapped around her waist.

"Hold me tight."

Su Yu did as she was told subconsciously and was brought ashore. She shivered and huddled in Xie Qinglan's arms, her little face turning pale from the cold.

Wrapped in a thick black cloak, Xie Qinglan's face was dark, with a hint of barely perceptible panic and fear, and a cold voice squeezed out from between her teeth: "Who told you to jump with me?"

Su Yu coughed twice, hugged her cloak tightly, shrank back, and said with red eyes, "She fell down because she didn't stand firmly. I didn't push her."

Xie Qinglan took a deep breath and gritted his teeth: "What I'm asking is, who told you to jump down?"

Su Yu was stunned.

Princess Minghui was also rescued. She was wrapped in a cloak brought by the servants and shivering all over. Her lips were so cold that they were dry and she kept coughing up water.

"Brother, brother..." Princess Minghui felt aggrieved. She was obviously closer to her eldest brother, but he swam straight towards the woman as if he didn't see her.

Xie Qinglan ignored her, picked up Su Yu, and said coldly: "Take the princess downstairs to change clothes."

Su Yu was carried back to her residence. Sui Jin had already asked someone to boil hot water. After taking a bath and changing her clothes, Su Yu felt like she was alive again.

As soon as I went out, Xie Qinglan hadn't left yet.

"Come here." Xie Qinglan raised his eyes to look at her. In front of her was a bowl of finished ginger soup.

Su Yu walked over and sat down beside him, looked at him uneasily, picked up another bowl of ginger soup and took a sip. It didn't taste very good.

Xie Qinglan glanced at it and said, "It's not hot anymore."

Su Yu was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"

Xie Qinglan said: "Drink it in big gulps to get rid of the cold."

Su Yu: “…Oh.”

Su Yu pinched her nose and drank a big bowl of ginger soup. Her delicate eyebrows were tightly furrowed, and the taste of ginger soup was still in her mouth for a long time.

The maids all left, leaving only the two of them in the room.

Su Yu twisted her fingers, not knowing what to say. Xie Qinglan didn't say anything either. The silence was unsettling.

"I didn't push her down."

"Who told you to dance?"

They both spoke at the same time, and then fell silent at the same time after hearing each other's words.

Xie Qinglan's forehead twitched twice, and he said, "Just because of this, you jumped down with me?"

Su Yu's eyes were sore: "What else? She is your sister, you must be biased towards her, so naturally what she says is what it is. Besides, you hate me anyway, so isn't it just right for me to jump in and drown?"

"Su Yu!" Xie Qinglan stopped her. He felt that Su Yu's mouth was really irritating, and threatened in a deep voice, "If you dare to die, I will have people raid the Yongchang Marquis's Mansion."

There is no need to find charges. Just conspiracy to murder the prince and the entire family will be executed.

When Su Yu heard this, she was shocked.

Her eyes were red. "Let them copy it. It's good to have them buried with me."

Xie Qinglan pinched her cheek, and felt inexplicably soft-hearted when he saw her tearful eyes.

He slowed down his voice and said, "Don't talk nonsense. If I hated you, I wouldn't have jumped down to save you just now."

Su Yu said in a muffled voice: "You went to save your sister."

Xie Qinglan almost laughed out of anger: "Su Yu, you can be even more heartless. Don't you know who I'm going to save?"

Su Yu lowered her eyes and said nothing.

"In your heart, am I the kind of person who only listens to one side and cannot distinguish right from wrong?"

Su Yu sniffed, and tears as big as beans fell without warning: "I didn't push her, she rushed over suddenly, I dodged for a moment, and she lost her balance and fell down."

The tears fell on Xie Qinglan, leaving a trail of water.

He lowered his eyes and looked for a long time, then hummed, "I'll check it out."

Su Yu's tears were still falling and she couldn't stop them.

Xie Qinglan had no intention of arguing with her after she fell into the water and got scared. He sighed slightly and handed her the handkerchief: "Don't cry, wipe it."

Su Yu picked up the handkerchief and wiped her tears.

"So, can you trust me a little more in the future?" Su Yu heard Xie Qinglan say this.

Xie Qinglan often thought that if Su Yu had trusted him a little more, perhaps she would not have been seduced by the villain into poisoning him.

He wouldn't have jumped into the water without even explaining what he just did.

Su Yu paused, her fingertips clenched slightly, and her handkerchief wrinkled into a ball. She didn't say anything, as if she didn't hear it, or as if she was avoiding the question.

In the silence, Xie Qinglan's expression couldn't help but turn a little colder.

"Forget it, just take a good rest and let Lan Ying come and serve you."

Xie Qinglan suppressed the annoyance in his heart, stood up and left.

His sleeve was suddenly pulled. Xie Qinglan stopped and wanted to see what Su Yu was going to say, but after waiting for a long time, she said nothing and slowly let go of her hand in silence.

Xie Qinglan's face was cold and he left without looking back.

It was a chilly spring day, and the lake water was just beginning to melt, so cold that it could freeze a person to death.

"A-choo--" Princess Minghui rubbed her nose and drank the ginger soup in big gulps with a hot water bottle in her arms.

There was a voice outside the door, and soon the door was pushed open.

Xie Qinglan walked in with a cold look on her face. She didn't seem like she was coming to visit her sister, but rather like she was coming to see an insignificant stranger.

"Royal brother..." Princess Minghui ran over, stood in front of Xie Qinglan, raised her head aggrievedly, and accused him, "Royal brother, why did you save that woman first?"

Xie Qinglan's face darkened: "Who taught you etiquette? What do you mean by that woman? She is your sister-in-law."

Princess Minghui was stunned: "But..."

Xie Qinglan didn't want to listen to those slanderous words about Su Yu, so he interrupted coldly: "Tell me the truth about what happened today."

No longer gentle and modest, Xie Qinglan's cold face made people feel scared. Princess Minghui's heart tightened: "I..."

She pursed her lips and told the truth, from the rumor that Su Yu gave Xie Qinglan poisoned wine, to how she sneaked out of the palace and came to the prince's mansion, what she said to Su Yu, and finally how she slipped and fell into the lake. She explained everything clearly.

"Where did you hear this rumor from?"

Only Xie Qinglan and Su Yu knew about the poisoned wine. Su Yu would not be stupid enough to spread the news, and Xie Qinglan did not tell anyone else. Although the rumor was not false, it came out of nowhere.

Princess Minghui: "Xiao Fuzi said it, and it's spreading in the palace."

Xie Qinglan raised his eyes coldly: "If it's all being spread, it must be true?"

Princess Minghui was confused: "What does my brother mean?"

Xie Qinglan glanced at her and said, "Use your brain in the future and don't believe everything you hear."

Princess Minghui was completely confused. From what he said, the rumors were false?

"Then why haven't you returned home these days? Isn't it because you hate and neglect that woman...the Imperial sister-in-law?" Faced with Xie Qinglan's sharp eyes, Princess Minghui changed her words in time.